Ahu Sokmenoglu

Born in 1978 in Istanbul, Ahu Sokmenoglu Sohtorik (PhD) is a researcher, architect, and design tutor. She received a BSc. degree in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), in 2002 and a MSc. degree in Architectural Design Computing from ITU Institute of Informatics, in 2005. Between 2005-2018, she was employed at the ITU Faculty of Architecture, as a researcher, lecturer and design tutor.  She was a guest researcher in TU Delft during the 2007-2008 academic year. Her PhD research jointly supervised by the Computation and Performance Unit of TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and the Architectural Design Doctorate Program of ITU Institute of Science and Technology, was rewarded a HUYGENS Scholarship given by NUFFIC (the Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education) in 2009. Her PhD thesis which was completed in 2016, focuses on on urban data analysis using the generic process of knowledge discovery through data mining and specifically aims towards ‘knowledge discovery’ in traditional thematic maps published in 2008 by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality as a basis of the Master Plan for the Beyoğlu Preservation Area (https://books.bk.tudelft.nl/index.php/press/catalog/book/isbn.9789461866523)

Her research interests include urban analytics, computational design in architecture, urban design and planning, architectural design and architectural design education. She has presented her studies in conferences and workshops and published in conference proceedings, journals and books.
She has developed and taught undergraduate level architectural design studios, since 2005 and graduate level computational design studios, since 2009, at the ITU. She has also ran numerous workshops on computational design together with colleagues mostly from the Europe’s leading schools of architecture, since 2005. She was a member of the organization committee of the 27th European Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design, organized by the ITU Architectural Design Computing Graduate Program, in 2009 and she also held responsibilities for other national and international conferences, lectures and workshops.
After her decision to leave Istanbul, she resigned from her position at ITU Faculty of Architecture in February 2017. Currently she is an independent scholar. More information about her academic activities can be found on the following links:
Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4551-2937
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=EAQNy44AAAAJ https://independentscholar.academia.edu/ASokmenoglu
Undergraduate level architectural design studios:
https://trauma116e.wordpress.com/
http://trauma115e.blogspot.com/
http://trauma111e.blogspot.com/
http://s-e-y-y-a-r.blogspot.com/

Graduate level computational design studios:
http://dads09.blogspot.com.tr/
https://dads2010.wordpress.com/
http://dads2011.blogspot.com.tr/

Workshops – as a tutor+organizer:
https://urbandatascope.wordpress.com/
https://tarlabasidatascope.wordpress.com/
http://istanbul.aaschool.ac.uk/

Workshops – as an organizer:
https://istanbultransitions.wordpress.com/
http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/igma/xxx/archiv/reflective/index.html
https://istanbulplacesofgathering.wordpress.com/